What’s on TV Friday

“Chef’s Table” continues its excursion through the kitchens of some of the world’s greatest chefs, starting with Grant Achatz of Alinea in Chicago. And “Bloodline” tightens the noose around the Rayburn family.

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CHEF’S TABLEon Netflix. “We’re still learning to dance again,” said Grant Achatz, one of the renowned chefs in Season 2 of this feast of a series. We spoke by telephone just days after Alinea, his Michelin three-star restaurant in Chicago, reopened for business after a top-to-bottom overhaul, including of the menu. It was an enormous risk from a noted risk taker whose critically heralded food — black truffle explosions, inflatable sugar balloons and a tropical fruit montage resembling a modernist painting — is a combination of science experiment and performance art. “Prior to closing, 2015 was the best year ever at the restaurant, both creatively and financially,” he said. But he was 30 when Alinea opened in 2005, and today he’s 42. “It felt like the time to grow up a bit and continue to mature and refine it.” Five other episodes visit the kitchens of Dominique Crenn, Ana Ros, Gaggan Anand, Alex Atala and Enrique Olvera.

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Grant Achatz in “Chef’s Table” on Netflix.CreditPeter Sorel/Netflix

BLOODLINEon Netflix. Danny Rayburn is dead, but he’s not buried. That is great news for the Ben Mendelsohn fans who were worried that the best thing about the series would vanish with the Florida Keys’ changing tides after his younger brother killed him. Season 2 finds Danny haunting the Rayburns’ dreams as John (Kyle Chandler), his protector turned murderer, campaigns for sheriff; the boozy Meg (Linda Cardellini) ascends to a New York law firm; and the cokehead Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz) becomes the master of his own boatyard. Then there’s Sally (Sissy Spacek), the matriarch of this dysfunctional clan, who is just beginning to fathom what lurks beneath its picture-postcard veneer. There are new folks in town — Danny’s secret son, Nolan (Owen Teague); his mother, Evangeline (Andrea Riseborough); and the unsavory Ozzy Delvecchio (John Leguizamo) — and they’ve been talking.

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THE HIGHWAYMEN: FRIENDS TILL THE END9 p.m. on PBS. “American Masters” looks back at that country music supergroup of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson.

IRRATIONAL MAN (2015) 9 p.m. on Starz. Joaquin Phoenix plays an East Coast philosophy professor in the midst of a navel-gazing crisis who decides to help a stranger by committing a crime that no one will suspect him of. And suddenly he finds meaning in his life. Emma Stone is the A student and Parker Posey the colleague vying for his affections in this Woody Allen film.